29 June 2009 | spiked

Let’s go back to the Moon – and beyond

As the 40th anniversary of the first manned moon landing approaches, backward attitudes here on Earth have tainted our view of lunar exploration

15 June 2009 | spiked

Risk-taking, R&D and the recession

The woeful level of Western investment in R&D reveals much about the capitalists’ state of mind

February 2009 | spiked

Praise for Energise!

A top sociologist has kind words for what is in fact a searing polemic

22 December 2008 | spiked

Global rivalries go green

Climate change will be a central part of government agendas in 2009 - and a rich source of diplomatic squabbles, too

20 November 2007 | The Register

What's Auntie for, exactly?

Instead of a dispassionate approach, the BBC gives us dumbed-down moral absolutes, far-out footage, and a sprinkling of "balance"

10 October 2007 | spiked

Why greens don’t want to ‘solve’ climate change

Environmentalists are cagey about techno-fixes to climate change because berating mankind for its impact on nature is their raison d'être

5 February 2007 | Spiked

A man-made morality tale

How the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fairly sober summary of climate science has been spun to tell a story of Fate, Doom and human folly. Co-written with Joe Kaplinsky

27 October 2006 | IT Week

How IT will cook up a feast for the eyes

Trends in computing mean developers will soon have to add visual literacy to their skills

4 September 2006 | 20 years ago: Campaign, September 1986

The legacies of a high-tech holocaust

Two decades have confirmed that tech guru James Bellini's alarmism about chemical toxicity was always misplaced 32kB

30 March 2006 | exclusive to Woudhuysen.com

Computer games and sex difference

This paper looks at some of the intellectual history that surrounds the politics of difference between men and women and asks four questions:

1. Are the differences between men and women around the making and use of computer games to do with culture, or with biology?
2. Are occupational segregation and the paucity of female games programming jobs part of a wider problem of discrimination in engineering, computer science and the IT industry?
3. Will games only fully appeal to women if women programme them?
4. Is the playing of game products by women unequivocally a Good Thing?

Summer 2005 | spiked

Fisson and fusion

If I could teach the world just one thing about science, in the centenary of the publication of Albert Einstein's equation E = mc2

Fall 1998 | From the archives

Pretty weighty

Review of Adriaan Beukers and Ed van Hinte, Lightness: The Inevitable Renaissance of Minimum Energy Structures, 1998